Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday vowed his government will continue to pay monthly stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, in what is known in Israel as pay-for-slay.
The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it had refused Israel’s request to conduct a joint investigation into the death of veteren Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh a day earlier, and would not hand over the bullet to Israeli authorities to conduct a ballistic analysis.
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper indicated in a new book former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pressured then-President Donald Trump to launch a military strike against Iran.
A veteran Palestinian-American journalist was killed during a raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, with Israel accusing Palestinian terrorists of shooting her down while Palestinians are blaming Israeli troops.
Israel on Tuesday swore in the first Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as a Supreme Court justice.
An overwhelming majority of Arab Israelis — 75 percent — believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in the land of Israel, a poll published Tuesday found.
An Israeli man was sipping tea with his family on the porch of his home in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa on Sunday evening when he spotted an armed Palestinian trying to scale the security fence. The man, a father of seven, rushed his family inside and grabbed his M16 rifle and shot the terrorist.
Israeli researchers are warning the world will witness another coronavirus outbreak this summer with either a new strain or a return of the Delta variant.
The Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group has threatened to go back to carrying out suicide bombings and to “burn down” Israeli cities if Israel targets its senior members.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for his foreign minister’s claims Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood, Israel said on Thursday.
A manhunt was underway Friday morning for two Palestinian terrorists who slayed three Israeli civilians with axes and injured seven more in the Israeli city of Elad hours earlier. Israeli security forces have released the names of two suspects.
President Joe Biden joined other world leaders to congratulate Israel on its 74th Independence Day on Thursday, saying the U.S.’ ties with the Jewish state were unbreakable.
In an unusual twist, Iranians were filmed chanting “Death to Palestine” in protests in the southern Iranian city of Sirjan in recent days, the Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday.
Following the Trump-led Abraham Accords signed in 2020, Tuesday saw the first ever ceremony in an Arab country honoring fallen soldiers and victims of terror for Israel’s Memorial Day.
A delegation of senior Hamas officials visited Moscow to meet with Russian officials amid ongoing clashes on the Temple Mount, a report from the Hebrew-language Walla website said on Wednesday morning.
Israel on Tuesday evening marked the beginning of Memorial Day with a siren and a minute of silence in honor of the country’s fallen soldiers and terror victims.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday accused Israel of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, a day after Israel expressed outrage over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claim that Hitler had Jewish blood.
A large Hamas banner with a photo of a terrorist was raised on the Temple Mount on Monday morning, as more than 200,000 Muslims ascended the Al Aqsa Mosque for Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of Ramadan.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Monday lambasted his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov for saying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood” and Jews are among the worst antisemites, saying his remarks were “unforgivable.”
Israel’s Mossad spy agency foiled an Iranian attempt to assassinate an American general — even as Biden negotiated with Iran for a new nuclear deal.
The Israeli security guard who who was killed by two Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank town of Ariel while shielding his fiancée was laid to rest on Sunday.
An American family triggered panic at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after they tried to board a plane with an unexploded artillery shell in their luggage.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett marked Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday in the presence of the head of Germany’s parliament, saying the memories of Nazi atrocities were part of the Jewish people’s genetic makeup.
The White House warned Tuesday that Iran is only weeks from a nuclear “breakout” and the Trump administration is to blame.
Last year saw a record number of reports of antisemitic incidents around the world, a new study in Israel released Wednesday ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance day.
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth announced he will step down this August after 30 years at the helm of the global non-profit organization.
The Biden administration is closer than ever to admitting the talks in Vienna to return to the nuclear deal with Iran have failed permanently, Israeli officials have reportedly said.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour of misleading viewers over Israel’s recent handling of Palestinian rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The Israel Defense Forces shelled targets in Lebanon on Monday after a rocket was launched into Israel earlier in the evening.
Israel Police arrested seven Palestinians on Wednesday for throwing Molotov cocktails from inside al-Aqsa mosque, ostensibly one of Islam’s holiest sites. The intervention came amid ongoing clashes as Jewish visitors enter the Temple Mount compound for the last time until the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
The Israeli military hit terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a missile fired from the coastal enclave, which broke a four month lull in rocket fire.
Vice President Kamala Harris caused a stir among liberal activists after she served wine made in a Jewish West Bank settlement at her Passover seder on Friday, prompting her office to clarify she was not making a political statement.
Jordan’s prime minister on Monday praised Palestinian rioters on Temple Mount for physically assaulting Israelis going to pray at the site, which is Judaism’s holiest.
Clashes between Palestinian rioters and Israeli security forces erupted again on Sunday morning in the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, as Palestinians tried to stop Jewish worshipers from entering the holy site.
A video that has surfaced in the wake of the shooting in a New York City subway station on Tuesday shows the suspected shooter, Frank James, railing against Jews, saying they don’t contribute anything to life except “shit, piss, pollution, and death and destruction.”
Israel security forces thwarted a major terrorist attack planned for Passover Eve, Hebrew media reports said Thursday.
Days after rioting Palestinian residents of Nablus burned and severely damaged the Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus, construction teams restored the holy site in a rare daytime operation.
The assassination of all U.S. leaders would not be enough to avenge the 2020 death of elite Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards general has said.
Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday ruled the Palestinian Authority can be held liable for terrorism and sued by the families of those killed in terror attacks, as a result of its so-called “pay-for-slay” policy gifting salaries to convicted terrorists and their families.
Amid a wave of Arab terrorism, the head of Israel’s Arab-majority Joint List party Ayman Odeh caused an uproar Sunday when he told Arab Israelis serving in the security forces to revolt and lay down their arms, because they were “humiliating” their own people.
